Marked for Raphael Weimann
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match21 Sep 2026
Hartberg sink to position 11
6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Hartberg
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hartberg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Jonas Karner
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Andreas Lindner chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Hartberg training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raphael Weimann is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Rapid Wien will be the happier side with the point.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Lukas Fridrikas asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
The knee: Ármin Pécsi out for 21 days
21 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hartberg lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Red Bull Salzburg, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 23 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clock did what Rapid Wien would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Hartberg go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Hartberg are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Raphael Weimann commits to Hartberg for another 3 years.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Rapid Wien come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hartberg did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Mateo Lisica rejects the move
Hartberg had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dinamo Zagreb, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jed Drew and Hartberg agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Hartberg
Tom Hülsmann and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Jed Drew
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Raphael Weimann is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.